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St. John Kukuzelis

Though St. Therese of Liseaux is the most famous of the saints remembered on October 1, St. John Kukuzelis also is commemorated on this day. He was the illegitimate son of an Aragonese noble, Jaime de Palafox, the Marquis of Ariaza; his father would not recognize him, his mother became a Carmelite nun, and Juan was raised by a family of millers. When the boy was ten years old, his father...
Fr. Lawrence Jagdfeld, O.F.M. 160
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